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Grade A5 Security – How schools like Te Kura are creating the safest learning environments

With schools around Aotearoa embracing technology and moving to blended learning, this greater flexibility has been shadowed by greater cyber risk. Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu (Te Kura), New Zealand’s Correspondence School, knows this better than most. Turning 100 this year, the school has a modern and cutting-edge approach to digital technologies, to enable better… View Article

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Barker College staff and students become ‘citizen developers’ with Power Platform

When independent school Barker College decided to upgrade its student information system into a “Barker-verse”, it was seeking a platform that was cost-effective and flexible enough to meet the diverse needs of the school.  The school’s ICT project manager, Andrew Ashby, says Barker decided to adopt Microsoft Power Platform to automate processes and augment its… View Article

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Education Industry

Job-ready grads are closing the digital skills gap

After a day of classes, homework, and part-time work, students need time to wind down. So, using up their precious free hours to learn industry skills can be daunting.  When the University of Sunshine Coast (USC) embedded industry certifications as a mandatory part of its ICT curriculum this year, it solved a problem for students…. View Article

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Apps & Infrastructure Industry

Need a quick guide to new technology impacting government?

For those making ICT decisions in the public sector, there’s a lot to keep you awake at night – and that’s after you’ve navigated a worldwide pandemic.

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Education Industry

How robotic process automation is unlocking more efficiencies and deeper insights for Australian Catholic University

Australian Catholic University (ACU) ranks in the top 2 per cent of universities worldwide. It serves around 33,000 students, including more than 4,300 international students from more than 90 countries. ACU also has over 125,000 alumni.  The university needed to synchronise the data in its primary system for managing prospective students and alumni with a new… View Article

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Digital Businesses Industry

Here’s what makes the industrial metaverse impossible to ignore

National Government Industry Executive, Gavin Brown, breaks down the key infrastructure required to make the most of the industrial metaverse, such as through powerful tools like digital twins. The industrial metaverse is taking shape before our eyes, prompting many government and enterprise organisations to ask, ‘How do we make the most of this technology?”

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Digital Businesses Industry

The new (mixed) reality for healthcare

Health Industry Advisor Simon Kos and Mixed Reality Solutions & Partners Lead Lawrence Crumpton have joined forces to show you where MR is headed in health. Over the past few years, mixed reality (MR) has begun transforming the healthcare landscape. From training to delivery and clinical decision-making, healthcare organisations are exploring how MR could improve their outcomes.

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Education Industry

Brisbane Catholic Education reimplements its ERP in the cloud to support over 170 schools with varied needs

Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) provides services, programs and resources to 146 schools across South East Queensland, along with approximately 30 schools in the Diocese of Cairns.  BCE recently launched its new digital strategy to better engage and support students, teachers and staff members in a climate of rapid technological transformation.  “For us in IT, it’s… View Article

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Digital Businesses Industry

Is your business ready to step into the metaverse?

Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer for Commercial Enterprise, Sarah Carney Green, clarifies the challenge laid down by the metaverse and how to harness learnings from Covid to pivot your technology and processes.

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Education Industry

Microsoft and UTS launch Biz Apps Graduate Certificate to help solve technology skills shortage

The course aims to produce 1,200 graduates over the next two years.  Microsoft and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have today announced an innovative new course designed to help individuals build high-value careers and enable more organisations to harness the power of business applications.  As we progress towards an increasingly augmented workforce where humans… View Article

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Education Industry

Migration to Azure turns Edith Cowan University into a data powerhouse

When Edith Cowan University began its decade-long data warehouse transformation, it was essentially looking to create a “single source of truth” for student and financial information.  The previous IT infrastructure lacked flexibility and agility. It also could not deliver the insights required because it lacked capability in how the data could be used, consolidated and… View Article

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Education Industry

From Paper to Ink; moving from paper-based learning to a digital learning environment

St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls has been educating young women for the past 125 years. A school steeped in academic achievement and tradition, its digital transformation was in its infancy when the recent events of COVID-19 saw it rapidly gain momentum overnight.    Prior to COVID-19, the school’s device structure consisted of Computers on… View Article

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Education Industry

Queensland Department of Education secures 271,000 devices and servers in just six weeks

The Queensland Department of Education (QDoE) provides education services to more than 580,000 students across 1,258 schools in the state. It also employs more than 78,000 people in teaching and corporate roles.  QDoE has a well-established reputation for its zero-tolerance approach to child safety. It prioritises protecting students and staff by securing the information and… View Article

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Education Industry

Australian Islamic College tech upgrade opens a door to the future – and the world

When Australia went into Covid-19 lockdown, the Australian Islamic College was able to switch to online learning in days, thanks to a well-timed technology upgrade to Microsoft 365 A5 for Education.  With over 25 years’ experience in the Education Sector, Microsoft Gold partner and solutions provider Data#3 worked with the college in Western Australia to transform teaching,… View Article

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Education Industry

Catholic Education Western Australia takes proactive steps to accelerate digital transformation

Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) is utilising Microsoft Unified Support to help deliver its digital transformation program and adopt a more agile way of working in the cloud. As a result, the organisation can better protect its most critical data and proactively head off performance issues before they begin.  Catholic Education Western Australia is the… View Article

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Security Industry

Coast 2 Coast

The first episode of Coast 2 Coast, meet Beau and Lou – Technology Specialists at Microsoft, as they cover the recent updates and news about Microsoft Compliance Technologies!

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